Gustavo Acosta


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Last Picture Show, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) That's A Roughneck For You Outside what amounts to a whole-town Christmas party (in novelist and co-screenwriter Larry McMurtry’s fictional 1951 Anarene, Texas) Jacy (Cybill Shepherd) frustrates jock boyfriend Duane (Jeff Bridges), contriving an excuse allowing her to slip away with Lester (Randy Quaid) to a promising country-club party in a bigger town, Peter Bogdanovich directing, in The Last Picture Show, 1971.
Last Picture Show, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) She Was Just A Girl High schooler Sonny (Timothy Bottoms), pal Billy (Sam Bottoms) in tow, with mentor Sam "The Lion" (Ben Johnson), reconciled after a disagreement, fishing outside town, in 1951 Texas, in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show, 1971.
Last Picture Show, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Is It Something Bad? Texas high school senior Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) brings his football coach's lonely wife Ruth (Cloris Leachman), whom he's just met, home after a visit to the doctor for an unspecified ailment, in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show, 1971.
Last Picture Show, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Too Rough For Me Opening scenes, Sonny (Timothy Bottons) in sleepy Anarene, TX, 1951, picks up pal Billy (brother, Sam Bottoms) and visits Sam (Ben Johnson) at the pool hall, who comments on last night's football game, in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show, 1971.
Last Picture Show, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Trashy Behavior Texas teen Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) and pals are ashamed, bringing mute Billy (Sam Bottoms) back to town after buying a prostitute for him, called out by pool hall and theater owner Sam (Academy Award winner Ben Johnson), in The Last Picture Show, 1971, Peter Bogdanovich directing, from Larry McMurtry's novel.
Last Picture Show, The (1971) -- (Movie Clip) Beauty Is Truth In English class with teacher (John Hillerman) and Keats, Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) then in practice with coach Popper (Bill Thurman) and after with pals Duane (Jeff Bridges) and Jacy (Cybill Shepherd), in 1951 rural Texas, early in The Last Picture Show, 1971, from Larry McMurtry's novel.
My Brilliant Career (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Mrs. Bossier's Granddaughter The first shot with green vegetation as Sybylla (Judy Davis), sent from her parents' droughted outback farm, is greeted by Frank (Robert Grubb) then her grandmother and aunt (Aileen Britton, Wendy Hughes), in Gillian Armstrong's My Brilliant Career, 1979, from the autobiographical novel by Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin.
My Brilliant Career (1979) -- (Movie Clip) You'll Have Me Sacked Sybylla (Judy Davis), visiting her grandmother, aunt and uncle (Aileen Britton, Wendy Hughes, Peter Whitford) in 1901 Australia, has her head plausibly turned by a handsome neighbor (Sam Neill), not realizing he's a childhood friend, Robert Grubb as the less interesting Frank, in Gillian Armstrong's international hit My Brilliant Career, 1979.
Spy Who Loved Me, The (1977) -- (Movie Clip) What A Helpful Chap In Cairo looking for Fekkish, who’s said to have links to the diabolical Stromberg, Bond (Roger Moore) encounters the unlucky Felicca (Olga Bisera) whom he flips in no time, but still has to deal with thug Sandor (Milton Reid), also terminally, in The Spy Who Loved Me, 1977.
Terms Of Endearment (1983) -- (Original Trailer) Original trailer for the celebrated feature from writer-director James L. Brooks, winner of five Academy Awards, from the Larry McMurtry novel, Terms Of Endearment, 1983, with Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson and Jeff Daniels.
Cult Of The Damned (a.k.a. Angel, Angel Down We Go) (1969) -- (Movie Clip) I'm A Fairy Princess Shortly after the opening, a flashback to earlier in the life of troubled Tara-Nicole (Joan Calhoun in this scene, growing up to be Holly Near), at a restaurant with her warring super-wealthy parents (Charles Aidman, Jennifer Jones) with writer Robert Thom in his only outing as a director, in Cult Of The Damned, (a.k.a. Angel, Angel Down We Go), 1969.
Cult Of The Damned (1969) -- (Movie Clip) All Sorts Of Tranquilizers Usually low-budget American International pictures shooting on location at the Getz-Hearst “Beverly House” in Beverly Hills, singer Bogart (Jordan Christopher) has the full attention of mother Astrid (Jennifer Jones) and daughter Tara Nicole (Holly Near), then another original song by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil in Cult Of The Damned, (a.k.a. Angel, Angel Down We Go), 1969.

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